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  1. What's the REAL reason Polynesians didn't colonise Australia?

    Native Australians were exceptionally hostile to newcomers.

  2. Challenge: A pre-industrial society with modern & liberal cultural values.

    The material, economic, and technological developments of a society precede its political and philosophical developments. So “no”, for your list in total. You can probably get a few of the items from unique material circumstances though.

  3. Alternatives to Christianity in a world without Rome

    We have a real-world example of Indo-European paganism syncretizing with elite local philosophies: Hinduism. Absent Rome and Christianity, Celtic and German paganism would influence and be influenced by Greek philosophy such as Platonism and Stoicism.

  4. What would a country formed after a successful slave revolt in the American South be called?

    Biblical names are most likely, especially with the earlier PODs. The antebellum slave revolts such as Nat Turner’s usually had a messianic or religious edge to them. You might see countries called New Canaan, Zion, the Mosiad Republic, or something like that. The Mustee Republic or something...

  5. The Way of the Righteous: An Alternate Christianity Timeline

    Christianity without Paul would be very, very different. Will watch this.

  6. Alternate Ancient Empires

    Absent Rome, Carthaginian influence expands over time but Massalia rises as a competitor at the edge of their influence, with access to the interior of Europe. Turmoil in Greece proper leads to more colonists in Gaul and eventually a Grecoceltic culture arises on the norther shores of the...

  7. Most Likely Alternate Religious Regions?

    Mormonism could have ended up in northern Mexico or maybe Canada, had U.S. persecution been more intense and successful. I've always been intrigued by Donatism, though I'm skeptical it could last upon Constantine's legalization of Christian practice. If that never happens, or when it does...

  8. What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    Plus Sonora and Chihuahua from Mexico.

  9. USA if Spanish conquer England

    Fascism and communism as they developed in our world will be butterflied with such an early POD. Likely some sort of extreme left and right analogues will exist, though if the Spanish victory leads to a substantially more Catholic or hierarchally authoritarian world they will be quite different...

  10. If Napoléon won, would Denmark-Norway still split?

    My assumption from OP's post was an early Napoleonic Wars POD that has the entire course of them going better for Napoleon. Admittedly in which case, Bernadotte's role and leadership in Sweden and the sequence of Swedish (and Russian) involvement in the various coalition wars could be...

  11. If Napoléon won, would Denmark-Norway still split?

    My understanding is Bernadotte thought another war for Finland, even if victorious, would just invite future Russian aggression and that Sweden-Norway provided a more defensible option and staging ground for future expansion. However Bernadotte was quite savvy and if Napoleon was still winning...

  12. What if the North had shipped over the freed slaves to Liberia as Lincoln suggested in the 1850s after the American Civil War?

    Sure, Liberia might be somewhat larger with more sustained immigration. I would note that between 1820 and 1843 the death rate (principally from malaria, fever, and tropical disease) for Americo-Liberian emigrants was somewhere north of 50% (pg. 13-14). This was not due to losses on the...

  13. What if the North had shipped over the freed slaves to Liberia as Lincoln suggested in the 1850s after the American Civil War?

    The Black population of the United States in 1860 was 4.5 million. The total population of Liberia at the time was around 350,000. Ethnic cleansing on that scale would have been a logistical and humanitarian disaster. Black people who were moved would die in large numbers en route and in larger...

  14. AHC: Second US Constitution

    A 3rd US Constitution is dangerous because the 2nd one was also technically illegal. The Articles required unanimity for amendment and the constitutional convention was originally called to amend the articles. The people present ended up scrapping the thing entirely which was both outside of...

  15. My Eyes Have Seen The Glory - A Slave Republic in the Early Colonies

    One way to retain the connection to Ogun would be through syncretization - in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou Ogun was at times identified with St. George, St. Peter, or St. James the Greater. The latter is also the patron saint of laborers, and in this specific milieu the connection with...

  16. My Eyes Have Seen The Glory - A Slave Republic in the Early Colonies

    I was going to say this. The idea is good and the writing is interesting, a more typical early 19th-century name would either invoke concepts of freedom, names of founders (especially martyred ones), or possibly Biblical or Greco-Roman concepts (or possibly Yoruba ones since that seems to be...

  17. Was there any other backward nation that tried to industrialize like Japan or was Japan just a single case?

    The Qajars in Persia tried to modernize at least, Reza Shah Pahlavi successfully completed significant industrialization though that's after 1900.

  18. Better off as Hunter Gatherers?

    Being a subsistence farmer, in some conditions, is worse than being a hunter-gatherer. Being a member of a modern, developed state is almost certainly better.

  19. Long term developments of a moderately successful Vinland colony? (read OP post please people)

    It will be tough to establish endemicity, as every time a significant plague spreads the continental trade networks will collapse. Once re-established, a new set of pathogens will spread and restart the cycle. Smallpox reached American Indian (EDIT: around the Great Lakes) communities in the...

  20. Questions about a Central Powers victory in World War I

    Maintaining the existence and ostensible neutrality of Belgium will be a major British aim, so it is unlikely the Germans will actually annex Flanders in this scenario. The UK can simply continue to blockade the continent while the increasingly starved and politically unstable Germans try to...
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